Orange & Vanilla Protein Pancakes (Gluten-Free)

They weren’t perfectly round. They were more like… continents – a bit Pangean. My first thought was “oh no! I made a terrible batter! It’s not thick enough! I must fix it by adding other stuff to the mix!” But I didn’t. I panfried the whole thing as it was because I tried one of the little pancakes and while deformed, they were delicious! Something about the vanilla, orange, and almonds just makes my heart go boom boom – and I think it will yours too.

Vanilla whey protein powder is tricky. It’s tricky because there are far too many brands who sell really artificial-tasting (and a bit, well… gross) vanilla-flavored whey protein powder. It’s not as extreme as it is with chocolate-flavored whey protein (I wrote about that here), but it’s equally hard to find a REALLY good vanilla whey. Over the years, I’ve tried over a hundred different brands of vanilla whey. Amongst them, I’d say only five or six have really done it for me. Out of those, my top two would be Cellucor’s (available here in the US and here in the UK) and Kinetica’s in the UK. You don’t HAVE to buy vanilla whey if you don’t want to though, you can always flavor your own by adding vanilla essence or powder (something like this) to unflavored whey along with your sweetener of choice (this can be stevia, sucralose, erythritol, or even coconut sugar!)

Important note:

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